Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 4560080 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 1 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Sep 2, 2026 |
| Developer | Nightoday Game Studio |
| Publisher | KLINGBERG ENTERTAINMENT |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | Not available |
| Review type | Not available |
| Positive review percent | Not available |
| Positive reviews | 0 |
| Negative reviews | 0 |
| Total reviews | 0 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | 59 |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/4560080/ |
Short description
Grow a magical garden right above your taskbar! Join your apprentice Pip and sparrow Jack Jr. to plant enchanted crops, fight thieving goblins with your typing skills, and earn gold for powerful magic upgrades. Turn your desktop into a peaceful retreat while you work, study, or surf!
About this game
Grimoire Garden: A Taskbar Tale is a cozy, second-screen taskbar game that perfectly blends idle farming, satisfying progression, and fast-paced typing combat. Designed to live comfortably at the bottom of your screen, it turns your desktop into a living magical sanctuary. Whether you are working, studying, or watching a stream, your garden grows alongside you without ever interrupting your workflow. Join your loyal magic apprentice, Pip, and your feathered friend, Sparrow Jack Junior, to cultivate enchanted crops, fend off greedy goblins, and build the ultimate magical treasury! 🌱 Farming on the Edge of Your Screen Start with a single taskbar planter and invest your hard-earned gold to expand your garden. Plant magical seeds, watch them progress through 4 growth stages, and harvest them for profit. The game is fully aware of your desktop environment. It scales dynamically, detects when your taskbar is set to auto-hide (smoothly sliding up and down with it), and lets you choose exactly which monitor your garden blooms on. ⏳ Meaningful Offline Progress & Upgrades Your garden respects your time. Invest gold and harvested crops into a deep skill tree to unlock permanent, powerful buffs. Contributed crops cannot be sold, but they grant massive improvements like the Market License (+25% Sell Value), Double Pack (25% chance for double harvests), or Turbo Roots (+80% Growth Speed). Need to close the game? Unlock the Scarecrow for offline growth, or reach the ultimate Dance Powder upgrade so your plants grow and water themselves entirely while your PC is turned off! ⚔️ Seamless "No-Spacebar" Typing Combat Goblins will try to steal your crops! Defeat them using our seamless Typing Combat. Just type the magical words above their heads to instantly cast spells (no spacebar needed!). Find Grimoires: Unlock higher difficulty levels to face tougher goblins with significantly better loot drop chances. The Skeleton Minigame: Trigger an epic boss fight! Deflect the Skeleton's magical bone projectile back and forth up to 20 times. Based on your skill, you will earn "Bone Meal" (Tier 1 to 20). This is a powerful Fever Mode item that massively accelerates your garden's grow…
Supported languages
English